Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22
PERSONAL

Mrs. Horace H. Beard, is visiting friends at
L~incolnton, N. G..
Misses Daisy and Mary Hart are visiting
relatives at Gaffney City.
Miss Hattie Yates, Of Charleston, is in York
Vile, visiting Miss Sudie Nets.
Miss Minette Hane, of Fort Motto, is in
Yorkville, visiting Miss Minnie Wilson.
Miss Jennie May Clawson, of this place, is
visiting Miss Jennie Marshall, of Fort Mill.
Miss Fannie Grist is attending the COM
mencement exercises of Due West Female
College.
X Miss Bessie Gist returned home last Satur'
day from an extended visit to friends in
Charleston.
Mrs. DR.. E. P. Chazal, and her mother, Mrs
Maxwell, of Columbia, are in Yorkville, the
guests of Mrs. IT.. S.. Jefferys.
Mr.. Willie I. Witherspoon, a student in the
Maryland College of Pharmacy, returned home
last Friday to spend vacation.
x Mrs. Ida Meek, nee Kennedy, who moved to
Arkansas soon after her marriage a year and
a half ago, is visiting her parents in this place
Judge Witherspoon returned home last Sat
urday, having completed the Courts of the
Fourth Circuit with the term at Marion last
week.
Mr.. r. NJ. Dobson, accompanied by his
mother, left on Sunday for Elizabeth City, N
c., having been summoned to the bedside Of
his brother, DR.. j. Butler Dobson, who is dan
gerously sick.
Mr.. Joe w. Colcock, of Honey Grove, Texas,
is on a visit to his old home, after an absence
of nearly two years. Mr.. Colcock is located
within twenty miles Of Paris and engaged in
the cotton business. He represents the State
of his adoption in a fourishing condition, and
if we may judge by his own appearance, such
is the fact. His many friends will be pleased
to learn that he is we'll and prospecting.
BAPTIST MINISTER'S CONFERENCE.
A meeting of the "Chester Ministers Con
ference will be held in this place next week
commencing on Monday, 9th, at l o'clock
P. NJ. This conference embraces the preachers
of the Baptist denomination on the c., e. a. A
Railroad from Columbia to Charlotte, and on
the Chester and Lenoir from Lancaster tc
Yorkville.
The object of the conference is mostly of a so.
cial character, though the pastors give account
of their work in their respective fields, and con-
fer together as to their plans of work. An &C.
c~asional sermon for criticism, an exegesis Of a
passage of scripture, or an essay on some sub
ject of morals or religion are also contemplated
in it's constitution.
These meetings of the conference proper are
private, but the preacher who entertains il
usually provides for some public services du'
ring the session. On this occasion the private
programme will embrace a discussion Of a plan
for canvassing the churches of the territory
included in the membership, with a view OF
giving missionary information by means OF
missionary maps" public addresses, the dis
tribution of tracts and possibly a sermon for
criticism, and an exegesis.
The first will be presented by Rev. MI. Full
Ter, of Lancaster; the second by Rev. MI. Ma
hon, of the Fairfield Association; and the
third by Rev. J. A Brown, of Chester.
The public programme will consist OF a SER
vice in the Baptist church on Monday evening,
in which each of the preachers will be asked
to "tell his religious experience" a sermon
on Tuesday evening by DR.. T. c. Bailey, OF
Greenville, and possibly a sermon Wednesday
evening, on Temperance, by Rev. r. w. San
ders, of Chester.
The ministers will arrive on Monday and re-
remain until Tuesday afternoon.
DIR. Charles Manly, President of Furman
University, Greenville, is expected to attend
the meeting, and Rev. G. NJ. Webb and j.. A.
White, of Blacks, have been invited ana are
expected.